If it is framed through the prism of tolerance and anti-bullying, most people support it. But there are still political pitfalls.
If MPs want to take the plaudits for creating such laws, they must also take the responsibility of defining their limits.
We are more complex than identitarians give us credit for. No combination of characteristics, experiences and choices are the same; and there are as many combinations as there are people.
But some, perhaps many, Tory MPs have these tendencies – including one no less senior than the Prime Minister herself.
It is absolutely vital that these issues are discussed this week and as part of post-Brexit trade talks.
At a time when austerity continues, we need to be explain that we are not wasting taxpayers’ money on a grand delusion that we can create prosperity.
On what basis would they then be prevented from appearing in pornography? Should they then not be tried as adults and sent to adult prisons? And so on.
We feel a commission, a working group, an inquiry coming in – to look these inconsistencies, accidents of history and quirks, to see if some tidying-up is required.
I finish by imploring you to consider the effect on our Brexit negotiations if we change negotiators half way through.
While society has become more liberal to minority communities, it doesn’t show the same acceptance to members of the party that won most votes at last year’s election.
Plus: The mystery of the missing Kwasi Kwarteng. The presence of the ebullient Brandon Lewis. The absence and recovery of Nick de Bois. Plus: Capita’s failures.
But Major’s Back to Basics disaster shows how badly wrong the attempt to provide moral leadership can go.
It has fascinated me since growing up in a single parent family on the outskirts of Belfast – before attending the lowest-performing secondary school in Northern Ireland.